diff --git a/vte.be0 b/vte.be0
index 5ed6c2d32..670f090d5 100755
--- a/vte.be0
+++ b/vte.be0
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env beesh
 
-# BEE_VERSION vte-0.64.0-0
+# BEE_VERSION vte-0.84.1-0
 
 # SRCURL[0]="https://download.gnome.org/sources/vte/${PKGVERSION[2]}/vte-${PKGVERSION}.tar.xz"
-SRCURL[0]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/b4d21f17b1c80381f9f8c387d1756df3/vte-0.64.0.tar.xz"
+SRCURL[0]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/ea4e16dbba54a6b8ba2cbb95cfdaa217/vte-0.84.1.tar.xz"
 
-# PATCHURL+=()
+# std::out_ptr needs libstdc++ from GCC 14, but meson.build accepts GCC 12.1.
+PATCHURL+=("https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/a10f77b0a96086ce67dbfbed929100b8/vte-0.84.1-do-not-use-std-out_ptr.patch")
 
 # build_in_sourcedir
 
@@ -21,7 +22,13 @@ mee_patch() {
 }
 
 mee_configure() {
-    bee_configure
+    # The release tarball ships the sources of fast_float, fmt and simdutf
+    # under subprojects/. fmt is pulled in with an explicit subproject()
+    # call, but the other two are dependency() fallbacks, which bee's
+    # --wrap-mode=nofallback forbids. Allow exactly those two; they are
+    # header-only or built statically and are not installed.
+    bee_configure \
+        --force-fallback-for=fast_float,simdutf
 }
 
 #mee_build() {
@@ -31,3 +38,9 @@ mee_configure() {
 #mee_install() {
 #    bee_install
 #}
+
+mee_install_post() {
+    # Keep the vte-2.91 test terminals, but out of application menus and out
+    # of xdg-terminal-exec's list of terminals.
+    rm -r ${D}${PREFIX}/share/applications ${D}${PREFIX}/share/xdg-terminals
+}